Tuesday, 11 July 2017

Little Sister

Little Sister by Isabel Ashdown

Published by Trapeze

July 2017

After sixteen years apart sisters Jessica and Emily are reunited. With the past now behind them, the warmth they once shared quickly returns and before long Jess has moved into Emily's comfortable island home. Life couldn't be better. But when baby Daisy disappears while in Jess's care, the perfect life Emily has so carefully built starts to fall apart.Was Emily right to trust her sister after everything that happened before?

Little Sister is one of those books whereby you are glad that your family isn't like that portrayed on the pages before you. Jessica and Emily are sisters, and on the surface you would think them one happy family, with Jessica caring for Emily's baby daughter Daisy during the day, but it's only when Daisy disappears that the cracks start to appear and you realise that appearances can be deceptive.

Emily and Jess didn't speak for years, but when Emily meets widower James and his stepdaughter Chloe, they become a happy family unit. The arrival of baby Daisy leads Emily to look for someone to care for her, and she turns to Jessica to do so. Jess instantly loves both girls so Emily feels that they are in safe hands; however on a rare night out, the parents arrive home to find Jessica seemingly passed out drunk, and Daisy no longer in the house.

As you can well imagine, this is where things begin to crumble. Emily goes to pieces, and it becomes Jessica's role to hold the family together. But is she doing so for the sake of her sister, or does she have her own ulterior motive?

Read this in one sitting! It would make great big screen entertainment too.